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we are here in the capital of the american crisis, in the very center of the wound, washington, d.c., or as chicanos say, "watchingon." so what does it mean for latinos to be here, right now, at a time in which we are perceived as america's number one public enemy? as a cause of america's downfall? well, we are here precisely to either dispel this fear or to confirm it. woman: welcome to "the temple of confessions," an interactive performance installation designed to help you better understand your cultural fears and desires in a post-nafta america. we are fully aware that you are currently experiencing... gómez-peña: in early '94, roberto sifuentes and i premiered in arizona our most ambitious collaborative art project to date, a performance installation titled "the temple of confessions." we combined the format of the pseudo-ethnographic diorama with that of the dramatic religious dioramas displayed in mexican catholic churches, and decided to exhibit ourselves inside plexiglas boxes as both cultural specimens and holy creatures. i am a border citizen. i was raised in two countrie
we are here in the capital of the american crisis, in the very center of the wound, washington, d.c., or as chicanos say, "watchingon." so what does it mean for latinos to be here, right now, at a time in which we are perceived as america's number one public enemy? as a cause of america's downfall? well, we are here precisely to either dispel this fear or to confirm it. woman: welcome to "the temple of confessions," an interactive performance installation designed to help...
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then we jump all the way half a world away to roy, washington, and speak to a fundamentalist baptist preacher who says exactly why he does it. and hopefully, this will show our triangle at work. so let's go to our roll-in on baptism and look for that dimensional triangle. ♪ god is so good, ♪ god is so good, ♪ he's so good to me ♪ god is so good, ♪ god is so good, >> personally, for me, we were talking earlier about how we were going to chicken out because it was so cold. but i'm really glad we did, that it not only reaffirms how i really believe, but the bible tells you to be baptized, and just to - like my father said - to do it here in jordan river is something really special. ♪ god is so good, ♪ god is so good, >> baptism pictures the gospel of the lord jes christ. the gospel is, christ died for my sins, and was buried, and rose again. now, baptism by immersion has always been the biblical way. even those who sprinkle that the ancient, primitive way of baptizing was always by immersion, which is what the word literally means - it means immersed, to immerse. and so if
then we jump all the way half a world away to roy, washington, and speak to a fundamentalist baptist preacher who says exactly why he does it. and hopefully, this will show our triangle at work. so let's go to our roll-in on baptism and look for that dimensional triangle. ♪ god is so good, ♪ god is so good, ♪ he's so good to me ♪ god is so good, ♪ god is so good, >> personally, for me, we were talking earlier about how we were going to chicken out because it was so cold. but i'm...
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so i called up melzack in washington. i said, "i need $40,000. "do you really want that painting? i'll get it from max." melzack said, "well, milton, i don't know whether i can afford to buy a painting now." so i said, "okay," and i went to paint, and while i was painting, the telephone rang. and i said, "that's melzack, i know it is." so i got on the phone. he says, "i'll give you $30,000." so i says, "okay," and i bought that building. the whole thing opens up into a kind of growing field. now, feelings that are too strong are hopeless. you go mad. you say, "enough, goodbye!" ah! so there is a kind of artistic, maybe, feeling which is not too strong, not too weak, and it just seems as if you can put yourself up against it. you can almost push against that so that it's there for you. and if you sense that, then you don't have to see your painting anymore. if you put paint there, you're putting it into that feeling. ah! nobody i know has ever painted like that, but that's how i painted for the last 40, 50 years. ahhh! enough. [ sighs ] [ sighing ] ah! i'm tired. technique -- i hav
so i called up melzack in washington. i said, "i need $40,000. "do you really want that painting? i'll get it from max." melzack said, "well, milton, i don't know whether i can afford to buy a painting now." so i said, "okay," and i went to paint, and while i was painting, the telephone rang. and i said, "that's melzack, i know it is." so i got on the phone. he says, "i'll give you $30,000." so i says, "okay," and i bought that...
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royo follows "femme" to washington, d.c., to supervise the installation on the south wall of the east building's central court. there are now many new problems to overcome. the tolerances are extremely close, demanding precise measurement, careful planning and a team effort. the huge roll barely fits into this confined space. the workers must unroll it evenly and accurately. bolts have been embedded deep into the structural wall, behind the marble facing, to support this massive piece when it slides into place. ( muffled comments ) carefully, royo grooms "femme," as the crew gradually hoistser upwd over the last few yards of a long journey. ( music ) this is the realization of many dreams, uly a work of collaboration; the fulfillment of a vision shared by the architect and the national gallery, supported by generous patrs, brought to fruition by joan miro and josep royo. on this day, those drms and efforts are reaching a successf conusion. "femme" is at home. brown: "it's everything we hoped." today, suspended 42 feet above the museum floor, "femme" is fulfilling her intended role. sh
royo follows "femme" to washington, d.c., to supervise the installation on the south wall of the east building's central court. there are now many new problems to overcome. the tolerances are extremely close, demanding precise measurement, careful planning and a team effort. the huge roll barely fits into this confined space. the workers must unroll it evenly and accurately. bolts have been embedded deep into the structural wall, behind the marble facing, to support this massive piece...
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. -- captions by vitac -- burbank, pittsburgh, washington annenberg media ♪ for information about this and other annenberg media programs call 1-800-learner and visit us at www.learner.org. hasyou look healthyd, "you and you feel fine, health"? but that may not be the full picture. colorectal cancer is the number two cancer killer. it doesn't always cause symptoms, but it can be prevented. get screened. make sure you are the picture of health.
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forming a natural border between oregon and washington state, the columbiaiver anch provalong its path. peoplee the to restore salmon one hen e umatilla river the columbiaiver anchexplain coetition.cageogphye over acae source? inhe early 199, io here in the mountains there is plenty of water, t mati leiver io hegood for minnows,ns unbut not for salmon.water, by piling up rocks like this, the tribes created deeper pools. hall: and now we have some depth and some cover for the adult salmon. e problem is the way they nowple travel here from the ocean.tem.. the fishe be trap and driven s from locations downstream. here is where they are trapped, there is sufficient water here. and here, near the reservation, is where they breed. again there is enough water for the salmon. the problem is here, in the river's midsection. the fish, and even the water here, have all but disappeared. in the nearly dry riverbed, tribe member roberta joy wilson now walks where the salmon once swam. wilson: the rivers are the lifeblood of the land, and slowly that's being drained away. it's just a real devastation
forming a natural border between oregon and washington state, the columbiaiver anch provalong its path. peoplee the to restore salmon one hen e umatilla river the columbiaiver anchexplain coetition.cageogphye over acae source? inhe early 199, io here in the mountains there is plenty of water, t mati leiver io hegood for minnows,ns unbut not for salmon.water, by piling up rocks like this, the tribes created deeper pools. hall: and now we have some depth and some cover for the adult salmon. e...
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( musi) rrat in99 the national galler ofrtn washington of the dea of the painter sir anthy van dyck with an extraordinary exhibition of about 100 paiings and oil sketches, gather from collections around t world. born in 1599, van dyck's remarkable career took him from his native flanders to italy, and then to england as court painter to charles i, before the artist's death there in 1641. reesentethll range o van dyck's artistic creation, which allowed us to realize thimposing sle of many of his compositions, react to the sensuous color, and perceive the touch of the artist in the rich brushwork. the painngs themselves came alive. in this program, we'll try to recreate the experience of the exhibition itself, moving through the various phases of van dyck's career and discovering his magnificent art. van dyck's earliest family portrait sets the stage for our look at the artist's life and work. itas painted in 1619 in anerp, when v dyck was only about 20 yearsld. in this close-knit group, we sense intimacy and informality. the child looks up at h father, who leans protectively toward his yo
( musi) rrat in99 the national galler ofrtn washington of the dea of the painter sir anthy van dyck with an extraordinary exhibition of about 100 paiings and oil sketches, gather from collections around t world. born in 1599, van dyck's remarkable career took him from his native flanders to italy, and then to england as court painter to charles i, before the artist's death there in 1641. reesentethll range o van dyck's artistic creation, which allowed us to realize thimposing sle of many of his...
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with unemployed ivorians, many foreigners ended up in shantytowns, like this one near abidjan, called washington. ( man speaking french ) translator: first of all, it was foreigners, the burkinabes and the malians who were even more numerous. then, in the '80s, with the crisis, e population of this area swelled with people om all or e ivory coitself. at the moment,ere are peopleomg om all or e ivory coitself. from all over the ivory coast. you can find baules, agnis, dyulas and maukas from the north. narrator: but the northern migrants bring more than just their ethnic diversity into this diminished economy. bassett: they've changed the religious composition of the country. eighty percent, it's estimated, of immigrants are... are muslim. so currently, the population of côte d'ivoire is about 37%, 38% muslim, and a good percentage of that is foreign-born. so we're at a conjuncture where tensions over land with politics over who's ivorian, who's not ivorian, are creating the conditions for further political instability. so the new leader, or leaders, of côte d'ivoire have a lot on their platter.
with unemployed ivorians, many foreigners ended up in shantytowns, like this one near abidjan, called washington. ( man speaking french ) translator: first of all, it was foreigners, the burkinabes and the malians who were even more numerous. then, in the '80s, with the crisis, e population of this area swelled with people om all or e ivory coitself. at the moment,ere are peopleomg om all or e ivory coitself. from all over the ivory coast. you can find baules, agnis, dyulas and maukas from the...
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but he went up to her ranch near seattle, washington, and hooked her up to all that fancy electronic stuff, and said, "okay, let this 35,000-year-old master into your body. and she ascended to do that, and he, as a scientist, accompanied by a psychologist, a psychoanalyst could not explain how the charts - it went way off the charts. a couple of them, you could fake; the rest of them, you could not fake. and so that's the kind of thing he does is to go out and measure it. so the reason why i wanted to listen to dr. krippner is to say we all come to this from various backgrounds, and to some of us, it's, "oh, that's so silly, this doesn't matter"; to others, it's, "yes, yes! near-death experiences-wild! let's levitate! let's do that." but we could take a middle road in this class where we simply say, "they happen. let's talk about it and let's see how religious experience touches all of us." and so that's what i wanted to set up, if we could go into the notes now, and look more formally at religious experience. it gives us a groundwork to see just how interesting but difficult a subje
but he went up to her ranch near seattle, washington, and hooked her up to all that fancy electronic stuff, and said, "okay, let this 35,000-year-old master into your body. and she ascended to do that, and he, as a scientist, accompanied by a psychologist, a psychoanalyst could not explain how the charts - it went way off the charts. a couple of them, you could fake; the rest of them, you could not fake. and so that's the kind of thing he does is to go out and measure it. so the reason why...
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necessarily sacred, but because of the energy of the people, i think it was the vietnam veterans memorial in washington, d.c. as i approached that sculpture, i couldn't even speak - i just couldn't; i was just going to cry if i did. i could feel all the energy of all the prayers and all of the emotion that had gone with that. and the sculpture engulfs you - as you walk down, the sculpture gets taller, until it just takes you. >> it's so amazing you used that example, because when i was a graduate student, i was a teaching assistant for an upper division humanities class, "religion and the impact of the vietnam war," and we took students, with the vietnam vets, across the country to that spot and listened to the vets testify. that's what i'm talking about. we have some stone and we have names carved in it, but you get around a sacred space like that and it's overwhelming, and humans do that. it's part of the meaning system, it's part of the only way we can use culture. as we have here in the notes, it can be the most common - a tree, a flower, the buddhist's famous flower ceremony. mountains - mountains
necessarily sacred, but because of the energy of the people, i think it was the vietnam veterans memorial in washington, d.c. as i approached that sculpture, i couldn't even speak - i just couldn't; i was just going to cry if i did. i could feel all the energy of all the prayers and all of the emotion that had gone with that. and the sculpture engulfs you - as you walk down, the sculpture gets taller, until it just takes you. >> it's so amazing you used that example, because when i was a...
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george washington chops down the cherry tree, doesn't lie; abe lincoln walks a million miles to give back a penny - these kinds of things. we happen to be in the state of illinois - if you have been down to the springfield region, you know exactly what i'm talking about when we're speaking of civil religion, with the figure of lincoln. he's larger than life, he's more than just a human being or a past president - he's something that infuses public policy with an ideal. and we have to be very clear about that. civil religion supports the ideals over reality, and when we talk about the sacred texts that guide civil religious ideals in a country like america, we think about the declaration of independence - "that all people have inalienable rights." well, some folks have not gotten inalienable rights here, and we've had classes on native american spirituality, and we don't need to rehearse the whole negative scene with african american, native american, immigrants, people who didn't measure up to some kind of ideal, literally white-washed image of what the american mythos was. but we've
george washington chops down the cherry tree, doesn't lie; abe lincoln walks a million miles to give back a penny - these kinds of things. we happen to be in the state of illinois - if you have been down to the springfield region, you know exactly what i'm talking about when we're speaking of civil religion, with the figure of lincoln. he's larger than life, he's more than just a human being or a past president - he's something that infuses public policy with an ideal. and we have to be very...
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the thing that is most tangible about what i do is that, i'm the campus pastor at harold washington college in lute. >> have yoever had any difficulties in say as you are moving out for the ministry anything that has ever happened that you could share with us? >> crossings is my third call. my first call was in ethnic congregation on the north side of chicago, a swedish congregation. they didn't quite know what do you with a associate pastor who was a black woman. and one of the men came to me at the begin on my ministry there and said; frankly i don't think you can be my pastor primarily because i've never had a pastor who wasn't white male and of a scandinavian descent. and at first, i was kind of surprised but my response to him became very positive and affirmed the fact that he could even say that. because that to me is something i can deal with. it's when people don't say things that you don't know really how to handle it. but anyway he was that honest and integrous about his approach. by the time i left there which was almost two years later he and i were the best of friends because i
the thing that is most tangible about what i do is that, i'm the campus pastor at harold washington college in lute. >> have yoever had any difficulties in say as you are moving out for the ministry anything that has ever happened that you could share with us? >> crossings is my third call. my first call was in ethnic congregation on the north side of chicago, a swedish congregation. they didn't quite know what do you with a associate pastor who was a black woman. and one of the men...
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that we're not in washington as well as the date that we were established, tells you something about our history. in 1946, troops were returning home from europe and the pacific after world war ii. the joy of their return was tempered by public health concerns about what might be arriving with them. would their homecoming also reintroduce diseases that had been erased from the national scene? in the southeastern part of the united states, up until well into the 20th century, this was an area that had malaria. there was a lot of concern that as soldiers returned from areas, particularly in the pacific, which were high-incidence areas for malaria, that as they came back to military bases in the southeast, that there was a possibility that they would reintroduce malaria into the mosquito populations around those military bases, and so a little unit was established in atlanta, being that it was the largest city in the southeast, to make sure that those mosquito populations were kept under control around the military bases, so that malaria wouldn't come back in this part of the country. a
that we're not in washington as well as the date that we were established, tells you something about our history. in 1946, troops were returning home from europe and the pacific after world war ii. the joy of their return was tempered by public health concerns about what might be arriving with them. would their homecoming also reintroduce diseases that had been erased from the national scene? in the southeastern part of the united states, up until well into the 20th century, this was an area...
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. -- captions by vitac -- burbank, pittsburgh, washington annenberg media ♪ for information about this and other annenberg media programs call 1-800-learner and visit us at www.learner.org. announcer: the bare necessities of living healthy are easy. just eat right, be active, and have fun. yeah! go to mypyramid.gov to find out more.
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